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   The studio works with wide range of project

including art direction, book design, illustration,

type design and consulting.

The history of Czech Crown I+II is new and redesigned edition of one of the most successful Czech history books ever. Three decades after the first edition, an updated and supplemented version provides basic orientation and summarize everything important about Czech history.

Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai – Essay collection on Alexandra Kollontai – a Russian revolutionary, and later one of the world’s first woman ambassadors.

This 520 pages book is printed in gold / red / black with hand colored edges (different colors) and is distributed by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Konstfack (Stockholm).

W – Czech edition of Swedish writer Steve Sem-Samdberg’s

award-wininng novel. A ruthless study of the vulnerable human being painted on a canvas of the early 19th century Europe.

Hand printed cover illustrations.

Neon Signs and Advertising maps the history of neon

signage in Prague from the early 1900 through its

modernist heydays in 1920 to postwar development.

Richly illustrated with never seen before photographs,

including futuristic work by fine art artist Zdenek

Pesanek, designers Ladislav Sutnar, Svatopluk Innemann

and many others.

Husitská Revoluce (Hussite Revolution) An overview of the Hussite movement – the most important forerunners of the Protestant Reformation) that began in the Kingdom of Bohemia in the early 1400 and quickly spread throughout the remaining Lands of the Bohemian Crown.

Written by historian Petr Cornej, who is specializing in the history of the late Middle Ages, and the Hussites in particular.

Novichok or bullet – How Putin's critics die

Investigative journalist Ondrej Kundra mapping the GRU and

its sophisticated system of elimination of regime critics in modern Russia. Sallisbury, Skripal, Navalny and many more.

Chilling reading about today’s world of agents, intelligence services and ruthless world of politics.

Ostrava Modern and Industrial – City of Ostrava

once an industrial heart of the Austro-Hungarian empire is filled with amazing industrial architecture gems – this book

by historian Martin Strakoš and photographers Josef Horázný  & Martin Štěrba describes many of them.

Zmizelá Praha (The Forgotten Prague) maps Prague’s forgotten excursion places, walks and historical sites through drawings, paintings and prints, from (mostly) the 19th century. This second volume of the series focuses on the places behind the Prague walls on the right bank of the river Moldau.

Adam Michnik / Vaclav Havel interviews between 1978–2011. ”One can only wonderthe foresight with which Havel and Michnikreveal the problems of nationalism and the degradation of public debate into populist cries.

Skrivandets förhandlingar — winner of the “Most beatiful

Swedish book” 2018 and winner of the Type Directors

Club certificate of Typographic Excellence.

The Most Beauriful Swedish Book catalogue presents all

the selected 25 books in detail and in 1:1 scale.Dust cover

jacket and winner diplomas are printed on Risograph.

Prague Modern Architectural Guide 1850–2000 is

a sort of “best of” previously published volumes

Praha Moderní (1–4).

Now in English and probably the only guide architecture

and design interested visitor needs. Including maps and

routes with some of the most spectacular Prague

buildings. From art nouveau to modernism and from

Adolf Loos to Jean Nouvel.

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